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“Our planet consists largely of lumps of fall-out from a star-sized hydrogen bomb. Within our bodies, no less than three million atoms rendered unstable in that event still erupt every minute, releasing a tiny fraction of the energy stored from that fierce fire of long ago.”

Long Stills Body Fall Three Energy Stars Millions Fire Minutes Events Planets Tiny Bombs Atoms Fierce Long Ago Our Planet Fractions Unstable Lumps Hydrogen Hydrogen Bomb

Author:James Lovelock

“In my photographic work I'm generally attracted to places that contain memories, history, atmospheres and stories. I'm interested in the places where people have lived, worked and played. I look for traces of the past, visual fingerprints, evidence of activities - they fire my imagination and connect into my own personal experiences. Using the analogy of the theater, I would say that I like to photograph the empty stage, before or after the performance, even in between acts. I love the atmosphere of anticipation, the feeling in the air that events have happened, or will happen soon.”

“In all the events of life, we ought still to preserve our scepticism. If we believe that fire warms, or water refreshes, it is only because it costs us too much pains to think otherwise.”

Ifs Thinking Believe Stills Pain Water Fire Too Much Events Ought Cost Preserves Scepticism

Author:David Hume

“When the brain is working to remember something, similar patterns of neurons fire as they did during the perception of the original event. These networks are linked, and each time we revisit them, they become stronger and more associated. But they need the proper retrieval cues--words, smells, images-- for them to be brought back as memories”

Needs Remember Memories Brain Fire Events Perception Stronger Originals Patterns Smell Linked Neurons Remember Something

Book:Brain on Fire: My Month of Madness

Source: Brain on Fire: My Month of Madness

“Our inward power, when it obeys nature, reacts to events by accommodating itself to what it faces - to what is possible. It needs no specific material. It pursues its own aims as circumstances allow; it turns obstacles into fuel. As a fire overwhelms what would have quenched a lamp. What's thrown on top of the conflagration is absorbed, consumed by it - and makes it burn still higher.”

Needs Stills Faces Turns Fire Events Materials Higher Circumstances Aim Obstacles Pursue Fuel Thrown Inward Lamps Consumed

Book:Meditations: A New Translation

Source: Meditations: A New Translation

“The climate is changing. This year we have come to understand this when we faced events that resulted in fires.”

Years Fire Events Climate Climate Change

Author:Vladimir Putin

“I shall venture to affirm, that there never was a popular religion, which represented the state of departed souls in such a light,as would render it eligible for human kind, that there should be such a state. These fine models of religion are the mere product of philosophy. For as death lies between the eye and the prospect of futurity, that event is so shocking to nature, that it must throw a gloom on all the regions which lie beyond it; and suggest to the generality of mankind the idea of Cerberus and Furies; devils, and torrents of fire and brimstone.”

Source: Dialogues and Natural History of Religion

“Once again, my colleague Stephen Hawking has upset the apple cart. The event horizon surrounding a black hole was once though to be an imaginary sphere. But recent theories indicate that it may actually be physical, maybe even a sphere of fire. But I don't trust any of these calculations until we have a full-blown string theory calculation, since Einstein's theory by itself is incomplete.”

May Black Fire Events Theory Holes Upset Apples Strings Horizon Spheres Imaginary Colleagues Calculations Incomplete Don't Trust Carts Black Hole Event Horizon String Theory

Author:Michio Kaku

“The kind of event on a conveyor belt that causes a fire occurs in a variety of industrial environments, not uniquely in coal environments.”

Kind Causes Environment Fire Events Variety Coal Belts

Author:Richard Price

“The contradictory, consuming, contested relationship between detail and whole, event an eventuality, breathes fire and wisdom in every great work of art.”

Art Whole Fire Events Details Breathe Works Of Art Great Work Contradictory Consuming

Author:Russell Sherman

“I love that "furious and gorgeous barrage." That helps me see the relation between the introduction and the book's final section, where writing about a fire (and about the attempt to understand the event), also becomes an attempt to understand how writing might get closer to the fire, in so many ways.”

Way Writing Book Helping Might Fire Events Relation Finals Help Me Sections Gorgeous Introduction Furious

Author:Laura Mullen